objective: the goal of this study was to assess the utility of serum uric acid in preeclampsia diagnosis and its correlation with some maternal and fetal outcomes. materials and methods: a case-control study was performed on 26 term pregnant women with preeclampsia and 52 normal pregnant women. serum uric acid, platelet count, hematocrit, gestational age, and birth weight of all patients were m...

Plasma membrane H+-ATPase is a major integral membrane protein with a role in various physiological processes including abiotic stress response. To study the effect of NaCl on the expression pattern of a gene encoding the plasma membrane H+-ATPase, an experiment was carried out in a completely random design with three replications. A pair of specific primers was designed based on the sequence o...

background: the cytokines have a major role in the inflammatory response to surgery and trauma. they have local effects of mediating and maintaining the inflammatory response to tissue injury, and also initiate some of the systemic changes which occur. il-6 is one of the above mentioned cytokines, but it is not clear whether the duration of trauma or surgery has some effect on il-6 level, so th...

the present study was conducted to find the effect of three heavy metals, ag, hg and pb on the expression level of a gene encoding plasma membrane h+-atpase in aeluropus littoralis. the experiment was laid out in a completely random design with three replications. the expression of the main gene was normalized to the expression of the housekeeping gene actin. two 259 and 187 bp fragments were a...

the present study was conducted on five healthy male cross bred calves to study the kinetic dispositionand urinary excretion of levofloxacin following its single subcutaneous administration at the dose of4 mg.kg-1. the concentration of levofloxacin in plasma and urine samples was estimated by microbiologicalassay. peak plasma level of levofloxacin (2.8 ± 0.3 μg.ml-1) was observed at 45 min and ...

magnesium (mg) is the second most abundant intracellular cation and is involved in numerous physiological functions, including protein folding, intracellular signaling and enzyme catalysis. it has been shown that magnesium deficiency exacerbates pulmonary airways hyperreactivity. several studies suggest that magnesium level has no effect on asthma but others had shown a contributory effect. bec...

BACKGROUND Atrial fibrillation (AF) may result in endocardial endothelium dysfunction. The main objective of the study was to evaluate the plasma concentration of endothelin-1 (ET-1) during persistent AF and after sinus rhythm recovery following direct-current cardioversion and to assess the predictive value of ET-1 in AF patients. METHODS The study group consisted of 43 patients with persist...

Methods The first aim of the study was to determine the plasma zinc level on admission in the hospital and 10 days after the recovery from acute gastroenteritis, in children aged 03 years, from the region of Bihor, Romania. Second aim of the study was to analysis the plasma zinc level according to the etiology of gastroenteritis. Zinc sulfate (10-20 mg daily, according to age) was given to the ...